BTW: We already setup a redirect from forum.gentoo.de to forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-28.html._________________"To have a successful open source project, you need to be at least somewhat successful at getting along with people." -- Daniel Robbins

Given that under some conditions people may need to use links to access the forums, and that many have started using a JS blocker habitualy... I propose a different approach that allows the forums to be fully accesible to these users, while alowing others to view a more consise layout:

By default, use Profile+Server side code. But then have javascript embedded that detects the browser, so that if the browser is one that supports JS, and can detect that the 2 major JS blockers aren't active, then it will display Profile+JS expansion._________________Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't
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I really like as it is right now, but I supposed every body doesn't, and some would just like the sub forum to be hidden. I've nothing special against except, Indenting the subforums is not the best solution IMHO, it really doesn't look clean, clear to me, but messy.

I don't the difference between Profile + javascriptProfile + server-side but the idea looks good..

what I would prefer is:
as it is now by default(I'll explain later) and the possiblity to have links instead in the profile

I think this should stay as it is by default, not only because I like it, but also because new comer/gentoo_user/... will start by looking for forum, before even starting to read what is writen under the "header" (I mean the link to the subforum). And that would be shame, since they highly risk to miss tips and tricks subforum (eg: french and deutshe subforum)

I cannot understand why people with no knowledge of HTML/Javascript open their mouth to say moronic things like "Javascript sux" or "Javascript is evil" or "What about the children (using lynx)? Think about the children (using lynx)!".

If done with only a *tiny* bit of knowledge (which I am sure Gentoo devs have, but moronic users appear to lack), Javascript can degrade optimally to browsers with no Javascript support. The HTML tag "SCRIPT" and "NOSCRIPT" have been made with this purpose in mind: let browsers which understand Javascript display (and process) the text in the first markup block and ignore the text in the second markup block.

Due to the first "<!--", the SCRIPT block, which is not understood by a javascript-impaired browser, will be treated like a comment and ignored.
The same will happen for the NOSCRIPT block by browsers which are javascript-enabled and know what to do.

In one of the previous posts, a lesser workload was one of the pros of going Javascript.
Using the above solutiono with javascript open-close plus static html "indented/bolded/whatever" would provide the best experience and the less workload.

I vote for:
- an option in the profile to choose between
- indented subformums that you can toggle betweeen open and closed
- where closed means showing them as a linked list in the block of the main forum
- done with javascript, and fully usable in every xhtml-compilant browser, even without javascript.

Something like this would be CLEAN XHTML (i did not do it as a <ul> because of the additional info columns. you just have to add I18L code):

P.S.: Only requirement besides from php and a standards compilant browser: The element with the sub forums must be the last one in the top forum row. (But as you may see, this is easy to fix, and so left as an exercise to the reader.

From my point of view "profile" would be the best option.
But it should have also an option to hide some of international forums completely. Sometimes I visit fgo using slow dial-up connection and it's quite painful to wait while all those Chinese* Dutch* etc... parts of index page download (and then I have to scroll down and search Russian or Spanish links for example). And of course I never read for example Italian or Greek (the ones which I just don't understand) forums like the most of fgo visitors do. So what I mean is that ability to hide unwanted forums (and not only subforums) on the server-side could save lots of users' time and also some bandwidth for forums _________________registered linux user #347998, киботеизм во веки веков